IN PHOTOS: Smoke billows from the rubble of a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris' 5th arrondissement after a gas explosion started a blaze in buildings. (Photos: AFP)
PARIS, June 21 - A blast ripped through a street in the busy Latin Quarter of central Paris on Wednesday, causing the facade of one building to collapse, blowing out windows and starting a huge blaze.The local deputy mayor, Edouard Civel, referred to a gas explosion in a Twitter post and witnesses told BFM TV there had been a strong smell of gas moments before the blast.
"I heard a huge explosion," said local bar employee Khal Ilsey."And as I was leaving the restaurant, I saw flames at the end of Rue Saint-Jacques." The blast occurred in the Rue Saint-Jacques in the 5th arrondissement of central Paris. The road leads from the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral to the Sorbonne University and the Val de Grace military hospital and is a few blocks from the popular Jardin du Luxembourg.Smoke billows from a building party collapsed at Place Alphonse-Laveran in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, on Jun 21, 2023.
"A neighbour knocked on the door and told me that the fire brigade were asking us to evacuate as quickly as possible. I grabbed my laptop, my phone. I didn't even think to take get my medication."
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